Friday, April 15, 2016

Sophie's Sunshine

My finished Sophie's Universe!

I feel like I've climbed Crochet Everest. That's right, I completed (to part 18) Sophie's Universe! If you haven't heard of it, it is the massive CAL (crochet-a-long) with 113 rows of flowery crochet. It took me over a month to create. I wanted to make this, just to see if I could. Plus, the instructions were very easy, but I feel like I've learned tons of new stitches and styles.

WEEK 18:
I did things a bit differently on this week. Sophie's Universe ends on row 113, but to finish my pattern, I needed 114 rows. So I added a simple sc row as a second to last row. If you'd prefer not to get confused by this, just stick with the usual pattern.
110. Light Blue
111. Turquoise
112. Light Blue
113. Turquoise (this is the row that I did sc in every stitch, and (2sc, ch 2, 2sc) in each corner)
114. Light Blue

Here's one more pic of my little buddy hiding in my blanket. I don't recommend letting your kids doing this, since he stretched it out a bit, but he was having such a good time with it!

Thank you so much, Lynne, Sher and Kat! I don't remember exactly how much yarn I used, but the blues and purples had at LEAST 3 or 4 skeins of each. The inner colors (yellow, gold and orange) were only a skein or two. That's why I used Red Heart Super Saver, so I didn't have to worry about dye lots.

Hi there, I posted earlier in this thread saying that I don't have the specific yardage, but the first colors (the yellows and oranges) only need 1 or 2 skeins, but the blues and purples need at LEAST 3 or 4 skeins.